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The prosecution had said Ahmad "may have made a most minor contact" with Franco's girlfriend as he brushed past them, to which Franco "appeared to take some petty exception".

On the remarkable and moving “Little Gears,” a waltz-time number built atop piano and brushed drums, she meditates on a spider weaving a web.

“I always told my brother, it’s a wonder we don’t all glow in the dark,” Senkewitz said as he brushed his hand across the graffitied hull.

In 1984, when many countries were divesting from apartheid South Africa, Queen brushed aside a United Nations boycott to play a string of shows at the Sun City resort and casino.

When questions have been raised about the legality of the strikes, the administration has brushed them aside.